Wagamama hot honey fried chicken with firecracker, mixed pickles and zesty vegan mayo on the side

Wagamama Hot Honey Fried Chicken with Firecracker

£9.90842 kcalBig Flavour Bites

mixed pickles + zesty vegan mayo on the side

Contains: cereals containing gluten, barley, wheat, soya, sulphites

May also contain 5 allergens

crustaceans, eggs, fish, molluscs, sesame

4.1 · 7 ratings

About This Dish

Wagamama hot honey fried chicken with firecracker glaze costs £9.90 and carries 842 kcal, the biggest and hottest plate of the fried chicken trio and the bites page's answer to the firecracker mains. Double crunch chicken through hot honey and the firecracker sauce, pickles and zesty vegan mayo standing by as first aid.

Hot honey stacked on firecracker sauce is heat with a sweet safety rope: the honey rounds the chilli's edges just enough that the next piece always seems reasonable, which is precisely the trap. It is the hottest thing on the bites page and sits just under the buldak range in the building's hierarchy, with the mayo beside it doing genuine cooling work rather than decoration.

The trio's big sibling in every column: 842 kcal leads the three, the sugar at 36 g sits between its siblings, protein holds the standard 35 g, and the salt lands mid trio. One plate split between two people alongside milder orders is the design; solo it is a commitment with an afternoon attached.

The shared price means how much is the firecracker fried chicken answers at £9.90 like its siblings, and the real cost is thermal. First timers should try one piece before claiming the plate, and tables mixing it with the actual firecracker mains should reconsider; one source of that sauce per meal is wisdom.

It wants the coldest, sweetest drink on the list beside it, the peach iced tea by consensus, and calm neighbours on the table, edamame, cucumber, plain gyoza. Heat seekers graduating from here have only the buldak wings left to climb.

Wagamama Hot Honey Fried Chicken with Firecracker Nutrition Facts

Per serving.

842kcalCalories42% of daily intake
35.4gProtein71% of daily intake
59.4gCarbs23% of daily intake
35.6gSugars40% of daily intake
50.8gFat73% of daily intake
5.8gSaturates29% of daily intake
2.9gFibre12% of daily intake
3.8gSalt63% of daily intake

Values approximate, from wagamama's published data. Updated 16 July 2026.Report an error

How to Make Hot Honey Fried Chicken with Firecracker at Home

The trio method at full power: firecracker sauce sharpened with hot honey over double fried chicken. Make the mayo properly; it stops being optional at this heat.

Prep25 min
Cook25 min
Total50 min
DifficultyMedium
Servings
2

Ingredients

Chicken

Firecracker honey glaze

Method

0 of 4 steps

Tips

  • Taste the glaze before committing the chicken; sriracha brands vary two fold in heat.
  • Lime in the mayo is the difference between cooling and simply cold.
  • Milk based drinks beat water for heat management if the table overreaches.

Variations

  • Gochujang instead of sriracha shifts it Korean and slightly deeper.
  • Halve the sriracha and it lands near the teriyaki sibling's comfort zone.
  • The glaze on fried cauliflower makes a vegan plate that outguns the bang bang.

Serve with: Peach iced tea non negotiable, calm neighbours only: edamame, cucumber, plain gyoza.

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Hot Honey Fried Chicken with Firecracker Questions

The trio's single published price applies: £9.90. What varies is the heat, and this glaze is the page's maximum.
Comparable sauce, more concentrated delivery; glaze on fried chicken hits faster than sauce through rice. Only the buldak collaboration range sits above it in the building.
Wagamama lists 842 kcal, the biggest of the trio, with around 35 g of protein. Split between two alongside milder plates is the intended use.
Genuine heat management; fat neutralises capsaicin where water spreads it. The lime zest keeps it from reading as plain mayonnaise, and at this glaze level it earns its place.
No, one firecracker source per table is the working rule. Two concentrations of the same sauce cancel into fatigue rather than doubling the pleasure.

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